"its owner, Len Riddiford. This shop is referenced in numerous ""Open All Hours"" episodes by Arkwright. Ronnie Barker proposed that Arkwright should have a stammer, and this was written into the character. Barker also co-created the premise of the dangerous till. In the series, the shop's antiquated till has a drawer that tends to snap shut suddenly. Even though this terrifies Granville and Arkwright, Arkwright leaves it to avoid the cost of buying a replacement, and because he believes it discourages burglars. The exterior shots were recorded on Lister Avenue in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster; the shop itself was"
"Ronnie Barker Ronald William George Barker, (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer. He was known for roles in British comedy television series such as ""Porridge"", ""The Two Ronnies"", and ""Open All Hours"". Barker began acting in repertory theatre and decided he was best suited to comic roles. He had his first success at the Oxford Playhouse and in roles in the West End including Tom Stoppard's ""The Real Inspector Hound"". During this period, he was in the cast of BBC radio and television comedies such as ""The Navy Lark"". He got his"
"in August 2017 by Ben Elton. Elton's lecture focused on the future of the British sitcom. Ronnie Barker Ronald William George Barker, (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer. He was known for roles in British comedy television series such as ""Porridge"", ""The Two Ronnies"", and ""Open All Hours"". Barker began acting in repertory theatre and decided he was best suited to comic roles. He had his first success at the Oxford Playhouse and in roles in the West End including Tom Stoppard's ""The Real Inspector Hound"". During this period, he was in"
"in ""Open All Hours"". A fan created a web site to garner support for preserving it. The shop was to be auctioned in Leeds on 24 November 2008, and was expected to fetch between £120,000 and £130,000; however, all bids fell short of the reserve price. Three years earlier, a different sort of auction commemorated the programme. The BBC donated, to the British Stammering Association, two of the false moustaches worn by Ronnie Barker in the series. The BSA auctioned the moustaches at their London conference in September 2005 (shortly before Barker's death). The show's theme tune is a song"
"can be seen working at a beer barrel on the roof of a pub that overlooks Trafalgar Square. Ron Fuller (artist) Ron Fuller (21 August 1936 – 2 July 2017) was a British artist and toy designer. He went to art schools in Plymouth and Falmouth before studying Art and Theatre Design at the Royal College of Art. After a career in teaching he began making wooden toys for a living in 1972. His work was highly sought after and has been exhibited and sold in specialist shops all over the world. Fuller was involved with Cabaret Mechanical Theatre for"
"holds an annual organ recital, which attracts prominent national organists. The Roald Dahl Children's Gallery in Church Street, Aylesbury, is a children's museum in honour of novelist Roald Dahl that opened on 23 November 1996. Aylesbury hosts the Roald Dahl Festival, a procession of giant puppets based on his characters, on 2 July. Comedian and actor Ronnie Barker (1929–2005) began his acting career in the town in the late 1940s and in September 2010, almost five years after his death, a bronze statue of him was unveiled by actor David Jason and Barker's one time co-star Ronnie Corbett (the other"
"a focus on reducing recidivism. While prison lore has suggested that the company is affiliated with game show host Bob Barker, there is no relationship between the two. Bob Barker Company Bob Barker Company, Inc. is an American company that sells supplies to prisons. The company was founded in 1972, with headquarters in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, and a distribution and sales center in Ogden, Utah. Its products include prisoner and officer uniforms, bedding, toiletries, cleaning supplies and security and restraint equipment. According to the company's website, founder Bob Barker, a former newspaper editor from North Carolina, initially started the company"
"Four Candles Four Candles is a sketch from the BBC comedy show ""The Two Ronnies"", written by Ronnie Barker under the pseudonym of Gerald Wiley and first broadcast on 18 September 1976. Comic effect is largely generated through word play and homophones as a hardware shopkeeper, played by Ronnie Corbett, becomes increasingly frustrated by a customer, played by Barker, because he misunderstands what he is requesting. A script for the sketch in Ronnie Barker's handwriting was discovered on ""Antiques Roadshow"" in 2006 and subsequently authenticated by Ronnie Corbett, who noted that while it was unusual for Barker to write in"
"The eight-legged, two-in-one rocker created over the course of the film was loaned by Appalshop to KFAC for its 2014 traveling exhibit. Chester Cornett Chester Cornett (1913–1981) was an American chair-maker and self-taught artist. His life and work have been the subject of monographic treatment both by regional museums and the University of Kentucky Press. His grandfather, Cal Foutch, taught him the carpentry of chairmaking. Cornett worked in many styles: ""pegged and slat-backed armchairs, rockers, and folding chairs from a variety of local woods, weaving seats from hickory bark."" This artisanal mastery was, alas, becoming an anachronism by the time"
"a live audience. Jeremy & his wife stayed with Cross at his home in Newcastle on the night of the event. In September 2017, Tim Healy invited Cross on set of Still Open All Hours, a British sitcom based on the original Ronnie Barker Open All Hours Comedy TV Show. They were recording the Christmas special in Scarborough. Cross performed for the cast and crew, including Sir David Jason. In October 2017, Rothbury Auction House sold a vintage dressing screen that once belonged to Rod Clements who is a band member of Lindisfarne (band) and he wrote the folk hit"
"Hours"" (BBC) and starring Barker as the miserly proprietor of a corner shop. Four series of ""Open All Hours"" were made from 1976–85. He featured in Barker's ""Porridge"" (BBC), a prison comedy, as the elderly Blanco in three episodes. Jason also appeared with Barker in various disguises in ""The Two Ronnies,"" including providing the ""raspberry"" sound effect for ""The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town."" Jason starred in London Weekend Television's ""Lucky Feller"" (1975–76), written by Terence Frisby and produced by Humphrey Barclay. About two brothers in South-East London, the series was in many ways a forerunner to ""Only"
"Sir John Barker, 1st Baronet Sir John Barker, 1st Baronet (6 April 1840 – 16 December 1914) was a British entrepreneur of the late 19th and early 20th century. He was the founder of the Barkers department store in Kensington, London, United Kingdom. John Barker was born on 6 April 1840 in Loose, Kent, England. He grew up in Maidstone, where his father, Joseph Barker, was a brewer. He was apprenticed as a draper in Maidstone for three years. Barker began his career by working as a draper in Folkestone and Dover. In 1858, he worked for Spencer, Turner &"
"a singer in the 1966 serial ""The Gunfighters"". She appeared in front of the cameras as Captain Wrack in the 1983 serial ""Enlightenment"", and again in 2011 in ""Closing Time"" as Val. Baron is best known for playing Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the popular BBC sitcom ""Open All Hours"" with Ronnie Barker and David Jason which ran for four series in 1976, 1981 to 1982 and in 1985, and was subsequently voted eighth in Britain's Best Sitcom in 2004. In the 1970s and 1980s, Baron co-starred in the ITV sitcom ""Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!"" and the forgotten BBC sitcom"
"Ron Fuller (artist) Ron Fuller (21 August 1936 – 2 July 2017) was a British artist and toy designer. He went to art schools in Plymouth and Falmouth before studying Art and Theatre Design at the Royal College of Art. After a career in teaching he began making wooden toys for a living in 1972. His work was highly sought after and has been exhibited and sold in specialist shops all over the world. Fuller was involved with Cabaret Mechanical Theatre for over 10 years and produced a number of designs exclusively for CMT. A larger-than-life-size cooper that Fuller made"
"Bernie Barker Bernie Barker (July 31, 1940 – March 21, 2007) was recognized in July 2003 by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest male stripper. The former nuclear power plant worker and insurance salesman had taken up erotic dancing in 2000 at the age of 60 to keep in shape after surgery for the prostate cancer that would eventually cause his death. Over his stripping career, Barker titled in 42 stripper contests. He appeared on the first season of America's Got Talent in 2006. Barker's quest to place in Guinness began in 1978 with an unsuccessful bid to claim"
"to my writing career."" In the popular TV comedy series ""The Two Ronnies"", Ronnie Barker played Smiley along the lines of Alec Guinness' portrayal in a sketch called ""Tinker Tailor Smiley Doyle"". This was a joint send-up of ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"" and ""The Professionals"" TV series, with Ronnie Corbett playing a bungling version of Martin Shaw's Doyle. Barker's Smiley provides the brains to the brawn of Corbett's Doyle and actually comes out the better. He is shown as something of an obsessive tea drinker. The sketch guest-starred Frank Williams from ""Dad's Army"". The name of Smiley's enemy Karla can"
"Lonnie Holley Lonnie Bradley Holley, sometimes known as The Sand Man (born February 10, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama), is an African-American artist, art educator, and musician. He was born the 7th of 27 children during the Jim Crow era and claims to have been traded for a bottle of whiskey when he was four. Holley began his artistic life in 1979 by carving tombstones for his sister's two children, who died in a house fire. He used blocks of a soft sandstone-like byproduct of metal casting which was discarded in piles by a foundry near his sister's house. He believes"
"Barkers of Northallerton Barkers is a family business operating a department store and a furniture store in Northallerton. In 1882, William Barker, aged 14, started an apprentice at a small drapers shop called Oxendales in Northallerton. As his career progressed, the store became known as Oxendale and Barker and eventually Barkers. The department store is located on the long high street and includes an arcade, called Barker's Arcade, of smaller shops through the building. The store offers a variety of merchandise, including some of the world's leading brands of fashion, lingerie, menswear, footwear, handbags & accessories, beauty cosmetics, cards, luggage,"
"week from each year represented, with additional random cartoons from each year. (There are no holdings for 1946-47.) The daily cartoons display traces of graphite, blue pencil, Zipatone, brush, pen and ink on illustration board measuring approximately 7 ¼ x 22 ½ inches. Martin Branner Martin Michael Branner (December 28, 1888 – May 19, 1970), known to his friends as Mike Branner, was a cartoonist who created the popular comic strip ""Winnie Winkle"". Branner was born in Manhattan, New York City on December 28, 1888. He was a twin and one of nine children of Bernard Brenner, a Jewish immigrant"
"it was actually Barker's co-star from ""Open All Hours"", David Jason who was responsible for the sound effects. Jason confirmed this in his 2013 autobiography. One episode featured Ronnie Corbett as the diminutive yet domineering Queen Victoria and Barker as her browbeaten son ""Edward, Prince of Wales"" (in reality the future King Edward VII was known to his family as ""Bertie""), which was a parody of the recent TV series starring Timothy West. On August 7th 2015 it was announced that a stage version was being produced by The Ministry of Entertainment. This was adapted by Lee Moone and included"
"expulsion of aliens consequent to the Franco-Prussian War. He died in Maidstone, Kent on 26 November 1879. Charles S. Barker Charles Spackman Barker (10 Oct 1806 – 26 Nov 1879 in Maidstone) was a British inventor and organ builder. Barker was born in January 1806 in Walcot, Somerset. His father died when he was five and he was adopted by his godfather. After he left school, he was apprenticed to an apothecary and chemist in Bath. He disliked this work and left to learn organ building. During this time, the organist at York Minster complained to Barker that the action"
"also played the elderly, paranoid and morose customer Mrs Delphine Featherstone, nicknamed ""The Black Widow"", in the BBC comedy ""Open All Hours"". Mrs Featherstone was the only rival to Nurse Gladys Emmanuel for the affections of shopkeeper Arkwright, played by Ronnie Barker (who had recommended her to play the part after seeing her in ""Tenko""), although she was attracted to him only because she liked his stingy ways. Arkwright was scared of her advances and often hid when he saw her approaching the shop. Cole was actually only in her early forties when she took the role; playing characters much"
"Lewis Buckner Lewis Buckner (March 12, 1856—May 16, 1924) was an American house builder, carpenter and furniture maker. (His name has also been spelt ""Louis Buckner"".) Born and raised a slave as a child, Buckner was freed in 1865 and later apprenticed to a furniture maker. He became one of several successful African-American construction entrepreneurs in late-19th century Sevier County, Tennessee. At least fifteen homes that were either built by Buckner or are believed to have been built by Buckner are still standing, two of which are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. He also designed and"
"Bob Barker Company Bob Barker Company, Inc. is an American company that sells supplies to prisons. The company was founded in 1972, with headquarters in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, and a distribution and sales center in Ogden, Utah. Its products include prisoner and officer uniforms, bedding, toiletries, cleaning supplies and security and restraint equipment. According to the company's website, founder Bob Barker, a former newspaper editor from North Carolina, initially started the company selling supplies and equipment to restaurants. The company began supplying to jails and prisons in the southeastern United States in the early 1980s. Since 1995, the company has"
"in Pinner for many years, and subsequently in a converted mill in Dean, Oxfordshire. According to Corbett, Barker was ""first and foremost a family man"". Joy died in January 2011, aged 78. Barker received an OBE in 1978. He was an avid collector of antiques, books and posters and amassed a collection of over 53,000 postcards. He produced several compilation books of them, including ""Ronnie Barker's Book of Bathing Beauties"", ""A Pennyworth of Art"", and ""Sauce"". Barker rarely appeared in public, and when he did, it was almost always in character. He once said, ""I've always known I haven't a"
"full weekend of November. ""[I’ve been a] farmhouse mover, electric welder, carpenter, the list goes on. If you don't try something, you don't learn anything. Common sense. You come across a lot of these people that know so damn much, sometimes you find out they're dumber than I am..."" Vollis Simpson Vollis Simpson (1919 – 31 May 2013) was an American ""outsider"" artist known for large kinetic sculptures known as ""whirligigs"" made from salvaged metal. He lived and worked in Lucama, North Carolina. Vollis Simpson was born in 1919 to a Oscar and Emma Simpson of Spring Hill Township in"
"Jason Freeny Jason Freeny (born 1970) is an American artist specializing in sculpture, designer toys and computer-generated imagery. He is the owner of the Moist Production studio, which acts as the primary publisher and distributor of his works. He is best known for his anatomical art, where he produces cutaway drawings and sculptures of (typically toy) inanimate objects such as a Lego man, Barbie doll, the animated fish Nemo or a balloon art dog. Jason Freeny was born in 1970 in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. Freeny studied Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He attended"
"chocolate factory. A mysterious tinker recites the first lines of William Allingham's poem ""The Fairies"", and tells Charlie, ""Nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever comes out."" Charlie rushes home to his widowed mother and bedridden grandparents. After telling Grandpa Joe about the tinker, he reveals that Wonka locked the factory because other candy makers, including rival Arthur Slugworth, sent in spies to steal his recipes. Wonka disappeared, but after three years resumed selling candy; the origin of Wonka's labor force is unknown. The next day, Wonka announces that he hid five ""Golden Tickets"" in chocolate Wonka Bars. Finders of"
"and in 1980 they appeared in the short-lived NBC variety show ""The Big Show""; the two were glad the show did not last as they objected to the use of canned laughter by the American networks. Following the success of ""The Two Ronnies"", the BBC let Barker decide what he wanted to do. ""The Two Ronnies"" took up one third of a year to produce, allowing time for Barker and Corbett to do a solo project each. Barker opted to produce some sitcom pilots shown as part of 1973's ""Seven of One"". Two of these pilots, ""Open All Hours"" (written"
"racist. But he was not a white-power guy. He hated everybody too much to be one of those. He was a provocateur."" Kenny Howard Kenneth Robert Howard (September 7, 1929–September 19, 1992), also known as Dutch, Von Dutch, or J. L. Bachs (Joe Lunch Box), was an American motorcycle mechanic, artist, pinstriper, metal fabricator, knifemaker and gunsmith. His father, Wally Howard, was a Los Angeles sign painter; and, by the age of ten, the young Howard was able to paint and letter at a professional level. The ""Von Dutch"" nickname was intended to mean ""stubborn as a Dutchman."" However, ""von"""
"television break with the satirical sketch series ""The Frost Report"" in 1966, where he met future collaborator, Ronnie Corbett. He joined David Frost's production company and starred in ITV shows including a short film. After rejoining the BBC, Barker found fame with the sketch show ""The Two Ronnies"" (1971–1987), with Ronnie Corbett. He starred in the sitcoms ""Porridge"", its sequel ""Going Straight"" and ""Open All Hours"". He wrote comedy under his own name, though for much of his written material after 1968 he adopted pseudonyms (including ""Gerald Wiley"") to avoid pre-judgments of his writing talent. He won a BAFTA for"
"Maxine Peake and Sam Kelly. In Barker's home town of Oxford, a Wetherspoons pub on George Street is named after his Four Candles sketch. A bronze statue of Barker sculpted by Martin Jennings, and showing him in character as Norman Stanley Fletcher, was unveiled at the entrance of the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre in September 2010 by his widow Joy, David Jason, and Ronnie Corbett. In 2015, the Ronnie Barker Comedy Lecture (also referred to as The Ronnie Barker Talk) was commissioned by the BBC at the instigation of the head of comedy commissioning, Shane Allen. The first lecture was given"
"writers, Barry Cryer, said: ""You could write almost anything knowing these two would do it brilliantly. Because they weren't a double act; they were two men who worked together and had their own careers."" Barker's material included the sketch which came to be known as ""Four Candles"", airing in 1976, although in the original script it was entitled ""Annie Finkhouse"". It sees a customer (Barker) ask for a series of items in a hardware store. The sketch's humour derives from similarities in word pronunciation, leading to confusion on the part of the store owner (Corbett). These misunderstandings include the confusion"